Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lower-level Government aide and then as Nader's chief lobbyist and director of his Congress Watch had shown her to be extremely zealous on auto safety. Foreman, who headed the Consumer Federation of America, provoked outcries from farm commodity producers when she became Assistant Agriculture Secretary. Each woman continues to be criticized, but now by Nader as well. He has charged that Claybrook is "a disaster" and that Foreman has "sold out" to the food industry. In interviews with TIME Washington Correspondent Eileen Shields, both women denied the roundhouse charges but add ed that they have to take more...
Carol Foreman also thrives on controversy and, like Claybrook, works twelve hours a day. She is aggressive and serious, as could be expected of a woman who once lobbied for Planned Parenthood while in a visibly advanced stage of pregnancy. The mother of two children, Foreman is married to a vice president of the retail clerks union. She looks more like an editor of a fashion magazine than a tough Government regulator, and she strikes visitors as calm and relaxed. Soft, gentle music plays in her office because, she says, "it calms the wild beasts who are in here...
DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimée, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London...
...That woman and her son are hardly the paranoid exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues...
...money for such courses, in or out of the normal school learning process. They reason that if the college game revolves around getting a high score on a three-hour test, then Johnny and Suzy should be intensively primered for such an exercise. "After all," claims the Forest Hills woman, "Isn't high school supposed to prepare you for college...